Most superannuation product providers have recently issued deficient product disclosure statements, the corporate regulator has discovered....
Although financial planners think the Westpoint collapse can be blamed on a host of related parties, they are prepared to shoulder some of the responsibility....
The reputation of the property investment industry has received another blow with news that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (AISC) has been successfu...
The Wattle scheme that robbed nearly 3,000 Australians of $200 million has reappeared, with a lawyer in Britain making bogus claims that he has recovered some of the lost...
Law firm Slater and Gordon has confirmed that it will launch its class action against financial planners whose clients were exposed to failed Westpoint investments as soo...
Planning practices have been urged by the Financial Planing Association (FPA) to appoint a ‘conflicts officer’ in order to comply with new regulations, but the associatio...
Creditors who lost money from failed investments attributed to Westpoint are preparing to launch a class action against the financial planners who helped sell them the pr...
Peter Kell is the face of the wave of consumerism that has washed over the financial planning industry...
A company that claimed to show people how to make returns of 100 per cent in three months has been set upon by the corporate watchdog for publishing misleading advertisin...
150,000 of fund manager ING Australia’s clients are to be reimbursed an average of just under $100 each after the discovery of unit pricing errors in their life insurance...
All eyes were on Ian Johnston as advisers came to terms with the most significant regulatory changes in many years...
A former director of the now defunct Whet Investments has been ordered to pay more than $200,000 to the failed company’s administrators following an investigation by the ...
The Federal Opposition has criticised the corporate regulator for not going far enough in what is already being perceived by the industry as too harsh an assessment of fi...
For Australia’s biggest financial planning dealer groups, managing conflicts is all about ensuring advisers have adequate choice....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...